Detachable closure for cooking vessels.



W. DOMANN & H. MCPHEE. DETACHABLE GLOSURB You COOKING vEssELs,

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 19.1913.

1,126,730, Patented Feb. 2, 1915.

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WALTER. DOMANN AND HERBERT MCPHEE, 0F LEAVENWORTH, WASHINGTON.

DETCEABL/E CLOSURE FOR COOKING- VESSELS.

Speciiication of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb.; 2, 1915,

Application led 3' une 19, 1918. Serial No. 7?4,668.

To all whom t may concern: Be it known that we, WALTER DOMANN, a subject of the Emperorof Germany, (who has declared his intention of becoming a citizen of the United States,) and HERBERT MCPHEE, a citizen of the United States, both residing at Leavenworth, in the county of Chelan and State otllashington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Detachable vClosures for Cooking Vessels, of which the following is a specilication.

This invention relates to cooking vessels, and has for one of its objects to provide a simply constructed closure for the vessel which may bereadily attached and detached when required, and Which-is suiliciently movable to permit the free dow oi water from the cooked articles without permitting the articles to escape, and without the necessity for manually manipulating or holding the cover.

`With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel ieatures of construction as hereinafter shown vand described and then specically pointed out in the claim, and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment ci the invention. I

Figure 1 is a perspective view oi the im'- proved device. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the vessel with the cover removed. Fig-'- stewpans, kettles, and the like, and itv is not ,desired therefore toI limit the invention to anyspeciic form ci vessel, but Vthe improved device is applicable more particularly to stewpans and like vessels, and for lthe purpose of illustration is shown applied to a vessel of this character, the body of the vessel being indicated conventionally at plane oi the handle, is adownwardly di-lrected hook 14C which .extendsA beyond the edge of the vessel. Attached to the vessel at the opposite side is a catch device 15 hav-y -over the hook 1t and thus secure the closure in hinged relation to the body. Pivoted at 19 to the closure at the side opposite to the aperture 18 is a lever arm 20 having an operating device such as a hob' 21 at its free end. 'lhe lever arm or bar 20 eX- tends through the opening,- ot the clip 15 and eng-ages in the rear of the downwardly.

directed stop 17. rlhe opening 16 is or greater extent than the thickness of the lever arm 20 so that the rim is ree to move .upwardly together with the closure 11 'to a certain extent and thus enable the closure the side next to the clip 'to provide lor the necessary drainage, while atthe same time the lever arm 20 is held from displacement 11 to bemoved away' from the body 10 at by the dependingterminal 17 or the clip. f

Thus when the water is to be drained trom the body 10 the body is inverted withv the effect of causing the closure 11 to be moved outwardly at one side within the range of the opening-'16 of the clip, and thus Ispace the closure from the `body to permit a requisite drainage, while at the same time prevent the escape of lthe articles Ithat have been cooked, the latter *being retained within the vessel when the latter is overturned. When the drainage is completed thevessel is restored to position and the' cover removed by displacing the lever arm 20 turning the cover backupon the hook 11i `as a hinge. la? the closure is to be removed the downward movement isy continued until the aperture 18 is separated from the hook 1d.

The improved device is simplev in' construction can be inexpensively manui'actured and applied to closures and vessels oi"- any required size.

Having thus described the-invention, what is claimed as new is: n Y

A devicel orn the class described comprisinge; a vessel, a cover for said vessel and movably connectedtheretoat one side, a catch device attached to said vessel and having1h r an opening therethrough, said catch device having a contracted passage leading into tot said opening at one end, the bottom of the prevented from lateral displacement by the 10 I passage and the bottom of "the opening lbestop when the Vessel is overturned.

mg continuous .and without obstruction and v In testimony whereof we aiix our signathe portion of the end lof the catch device tures in presence of two witnesses. "above the passage forming a stop with its WALTER' DOAMANN. [Le] the vertical axis" of the catch, and a Aholding Witnesses: f member carried by the cover andinsertible E. M. HINMAN,

inner Wall extending n Aparallel relation to HERBERT MCPHEE. [11.51.]

into` the opening through the passage and L.v J. NELSON. 

